A terrarium is a small world, with its own closed ecosystem, enclosed in a glass dome, under which it can exist almost forever. Such an amazing thing in the house will not leave anyone indifferent. Today we'll talk about how to create such a terrarium.

Preparation

We will make a terrarium from the most ordinary incandescent lamp. First we need gloves, pliers and a screwdriver.

Using pliers, remove the contact point of the light bulb and its mount from the base. Simply put, it is a metal penny in the lower base of the light bulb and its insulation, which resembles black glass.

Next, we need to remove all the contents from the glass flask. We take a screwdriver and push the contents inward with forward movements, after which we successfully remove it from the light bulb. Ready. After that, it is advisable to process the inner surface of the base for sharp fragments.

You also need to consider the system of fastening your closed ecosystem. It can be copper wire, hot glue on a flat surface, or an ordinary nylon thread for hanging a light bulb.

But do not forget: although the terrarium is a closed ecosystem, it needs sunlight. This must be taken into account when designing the fastening.

The preparation of our future terrarium is complete, and now we can start filling.

Selection of the contents of the terrarium

At a minimum, for the proper functioning of the terrarium, it needs: gravel or fine gravel as drainage, sand and earth to form the soil. All these materials are quite accessible and sometimes lie right under your feet. Then you can pick up a few small plants of your choice.

For example, moss - this choice is due to the extreme vitality and persistence of the species. Let's add a few more plants at random and some kind of wildlife object, be it an acorn, a small cone or a shell and much more that comes to your mind as an entourage.

Filling the terrarium

Since we will be making our terrarium in a light bulb, and it will be quite small, we suggest that you make a paper funnel, with which you can easily distribute bulk materials evenly over the surface of the inner wall of the glass bulb.

At the very beginning, we fill in gravel, then sand, and on top we cover everything with earth. The soil formation phase has been completed. Next we need tweezers. With this tool, we can easily distribute all other plants and objects in the soil of the new terrarium.

Naturally, our plants will need moisture, so we add a small amount of water from the syringe before sealing the bulb. Then we need to seal the base so that outside air does not penetrate there. This can be done using a cut branch of a suitable cross-sectional diameter and hot melt glue. You can easily come up with your own options.

How the terrarium works

The point of sealing a glass bulb is that the terrarium, thanks to a holistic, closed and autonomous ecosystem, is almost completely self-sufficient.

The only thing he needs is sunlight. Almost the same processes take place in it as on our planet. There will develop its own life, the water will evaporate, settling as condensation on the walls of the vessel, then again flow into the soil.

Some plants will grow upward, while others will begin to decompose over time, releasing carbon dioxide and allowing new ones to grow. You just have to watch the process and rejoice at the new acquisition, made with your own hands.

Terrarium is a wonderful thing

After completing the last stage, you can calmly exhale - the main work is over. You can now consider placing a bulb with earth in your room. It will look very interesting on a desktop or wall shelf, if sunlight has at least partial access there.

In general, the choice is yours - experiment and make decisions yourself.

If you want to learn more about the process of creating a terrarium from a light bulb, then the following video will help you:

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You will need:

• old light bulb
• gloves
• pliers
• screwdriver
• hot melt
• stone
• paper
• wooden stick
• tweezers
• syringe
• pebbles
• sand
• Earth

Instructions

Attention: do not use energy saving bulbs - they contain poisonous mercury.

First, put on gloves and take out this "round", as shown in the video, with pliers.

We continue to empty the light bulb.

We destroy the contents with a flat screwdriver.

Squeeze hot melt glue onto the stone in the corners.

We fix a light bulb on it.

We form a tube from a sheet of paper and pour small pebbles through it, which will subsequently serve as drainage.

After that we fill in the sand and level it with a wooden stick.

Using tweezers, place the moss or other green substances that you found on the street inside.

We add water last, breathing life into our mini-terrarium.

The handmade mini-world is best kept closed. An ordinary wooden stick can serve as a cork.

Or an acorn. Voila! Your microcosm is ready! A wire can also serve as a light bulb holder. Unleash your imagination!

And here is the video in Russian. Enjoy!

It's amazing what can be made from simple improvised things! Smartness, creativity, a little patience - and your home will turn into a real work of art, full of amazing things, such as a small microcosm in an electric light bulb!

DIY small terrariums are on the rise in popularity. A very useful and cute invention that does not require financial investments, efforts and special skills.

All that is needed to create a green eco object is a desire, as well as a toolkit. So, for a home terrarium you will need:

• An ordinary light bulb. You can take a standard "Ilyich lamp", or a special one for lighting large rooms. It is bigger and more attractive. The main thing is that the lamp is transparent.
• A rock, stand or silicone pads to be attached to the bottom of the light bulb to keep it stable and not fall off.
• Tree bark, small pebbles, shells, sand for filling, drainage and decoration.
• Sifted earth, moss, small plants with a root system.
• A cover to cover the light bulb.
• Tools: scissors, pliers, pliers, tweezers, screwdriver, syringe with water.

1. The very first step in creating a small terrarium is preparing a light bulb. Before starting all the actions, spread the newspaper and put on gloves to protect yourself from splinters. The tricky part of this step is that it is quite difficult to clean the bulb. If you can't do this the first time, connect a friend or brother to the light bulb cleaning. This is true if the terrarium is made by a fragile girl.
2.Using pliers, open the top of the light bulb, use them to remove the contents, take out everything that was there very carefully, carefully pick up the fragments so as not to get hurt.
3. Wipe the inside of the light bulb with a long cotton swab.
4.Next, we proceed to filling the light bulb. Take sifted earth and sand. Use the second as a drain. It is best if the amount of sand exceeds the amount of soil. This is necessary in order not to create an atmosphere of decay in an enclosed space. If there is no sand, you can only use the earth, but then you need to water it quite a bit.
5.Fill the light bulb first with sand (a little), add earth, small stones. Flatten, try to create a composition by connecting your imagination. Previously, the sand must be washed and dried in the oven.
6. Next, run the moss into the terrarium with tweezers or a long stick, "seat" it in the sand and earth.
7. Now it's the plant's turn. Plant it carefully in the ground next to the moss, taking care not to damage the leaves and root.

8.Add tree bark, plastic figurines or small shells to spice up the terrarium.
9. After the composition is built, water the plants with a syringe and close the lid tightly. The lid can be taken from the valerian cone, or you can use nuts, pebbles in the form of a plug.

10.For stability, the lamp can be placed on silicone feet, suspended or glued to a stone.

It is better to put such a terrarium in a dark place where there is no direct sunlight. It can be placed on a desk, windowsill, shelf. It will delight the eye, it will be a great gift or a mini home ecosystem that lives by its own laws. The light bulb forms its own water cycle, which evaporates in a closed space without access to air, and again turns into liquid drops. They, in turn, feed the plants that give off carbon dioxide. Thus, life in the terrarium develops.

Many of you have houseplants at home that are pleasing to the eye, decorating your home and supplying you with oxygen. There are an incredibly large number of types of such plants and also many ways to grow and maintain them.

Today we will design a self-sufficient ecosystem that does not require personal care and will be a good decoration for your interior or an original gift.

Florarium, vegetable terrarium- a special closed container made of glass or other transparent materials and designed for keeping and breeding plants. A certain air humidity and temperature are created inside, which contributes to the creation of an environment for the normal development and existence of plants. Florariums appeared in the middle of the 19th century. The first plants that began to be used in florariums were various types of ferns.

As follows from the description, we need a closed glass container. You can use glass jars, medical flasks, bottles, in general, any vessel that can be hermetically sealed without any problems. Having driven in the search query "closed ecosystem", I found an interesting option, which uses an ordinary incandescent light bulb, and a bunch of material how, without damaging the glass, to disassemble it and plant plants there. This option seemed to me quite interesting and easy to assemble, and I decided to try it.

And so, what we need to create our miniature ecosystem:

1) Small stones for drainage and stones for composition
2) Sand
3) Fertile soil
4) Different types of moss
5) Bark, small branches for composition
6) Stone or driftwood for the platform
7) Incandescent bulb
8) Two-component glue or hot melt glue
9) Pliers
10) Flat screwdriver
11) Tweezers
12) Syringe
13) Water
14) Paper

After a short walk through the forest and the outskirts of the city, I found all the material I needed without any problems.

Let's start assembling. The first thing to do is prepare our light bulb. Using pliers and some effort, gently break the black ceramic insulation, being careful not to bend the base of the light bulb or break the glass.

You should have a hole like in the photo below.

Next, using a flat screwdriver, you need to break and squeeze out the glass rod on which the filament is attached and remove it from the light bulb. Try to make the hole as large as possible, this will facilitate your future planting process. After all the excess has been removed, I recommend rinsing the light bulb with water in order to avoid contact with small glass particles.

Then we need to stabilize our light bulb. You can glue legs from something to it, you can glue the light bulb itself to a beautiful snag or, in my case, a stone. To reliably glue the glass to the stone, you can use two-component glue or hot melt glue. I used Poxipol two-component adhesive.

Now we need to make the drainage system. Drainage is a system for removing water through the roots and soil that allows the roots of plants to breathe when there is a lot of moisture in the ground.

Drainage is very simple. In our case, we place a small amount of small stones on the bottom. For convenience, I made a tube out of paper, which will also facilitate the process of filling the light bulb with sand and soil, as well as rid the walls of pollution.

Then we fill our light bulb with a fertile layer of earth. Do not be afraid if the roots of other plants or humus get into the soil - this will only play into your hands, as it will provide your system with useful organic substances.

The next stage is creative. Here you need to show all your artistic abilities to the maximum and beautifully place the components collected in the forest. To make it easier to plant the plants in the light bulb, I used tweezers and a ballpoint pen. As a result, I got the following composition.

The final step in creating an ecosystem will be adding a few drops of water. For this, you can use a medical syringe. It is not worth watering the plants abundantly, excess moisture will lead to their death. After we have irrigated, it is necessary to hermetically seal the light bulb. There are no special rules here, you can use anything: an acorn, a wine bottle cork, a plastic cap, a wooden stick, etc., the main thing is that no air gets into the structure. I used regular black buttons, pre-glueing the holes for fastening to the material with them.

After a while, condensation from water droplets will begin to form on the walls of the light bulb, you should not be afraid of this, which means that the process of the birth of life is going as it should. These droplets will appear periodically and then settle in the soil, simulating rain.

Excess water will drain to the bottom of the light bulb, provided you organize it properly. If you suddenly realize that you have poured too much water into your florarium, simply open the hole and leave it open for a few hours so that the excess moisture evaporates, then seal the light bulb again.

A day after the construction of my florarium, I decided that the composition needed to be completed and attached another light bulb to my platform stone, but this time a larger one. This is what the final version of my ecosystem now looks like.

By the same principle, an Englishman David Latimer grows in a bottle Tradescantia (a genus of perennial evergreen herbaceous plants of the Kommelin family), which has been in an enclosed space for over 40 years and has never been watered.

Today it is very popular to make an eternal terrarium out of an ordinary light bulb. I decided to try it with my kids. The terrarium is called eternal, because it develops its own microclimate. Water evaporates, condenses and re-enters the soil to nourish plants and microorganisms. Plants consume water, carbon dioxide and sunlight. Plants release oxygen and decompose, thereby providing fertilizer for new plants. A whole living world in a simple incandescent light bulb.

Video eternal light bulb terrarium

We need

• Inoperative incandescent lamp
• Stones
• Sand
• Earth
• Plants

Making an eternal light bulb terrarium

First you need to remove all the insides from the lamp. Remove the metal contact and break the black insulator.


Using a screwdriver, break off the glass holder, and using tweezers, remove it from the lamp.


We will use a stone as a stand. You can get creative and come up with some other stand.


We put a few drops of glue on the lamp and glue it at an angle to the stone.

In order to make it easier to fill the terrarium, we will make a paper tube. And with the help of it we fill in the stones, which will act as a base. And fill the sand with the second layer.

Plants for a perpetual terrarium

Now we go to the forest, there we will find all the necessary plants for the terrarium. Forest plants are more tenacious than indoor plants, so they will become wonderful inhabitants of our terrarium. We need moss and some plants with a small root system. Also in the forest we will collect twigs, stones, and most importantly - do not forget to take some soil.

It's okay if insects or earthworms get into the terrarium from the light bulb. They will also become residents of our micro world.

Add soil to the terrarium before adding the plants.

The next stage is creative. With enough patience in a light bulb, you can create miniature worlds by arranging stones, twigs, and choosing plants for your terrarium that will match and complement each other.

Placing plants in an incandescent terrarium is easiest with tweezers and a small stick.

Do not forget to add some water with a syringe. Without water, no organism can survive, which means that we will not have an eternal terrarium in a light bulb.

Once all the plants have been placed inside, the enclosure must be hermetically sealed. So that oxygen from the outside world does not get inside, and the water inside does not evaporate.


You can close it with a small stone, stick or acorn, which gives a very original look to the terrarium. And fill our cork with super glue on top.